Pliny the Elder: The Natural History - Book VII

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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History - Book VIIPliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informed speculation and common knowledge are combined to present a key snapshot of ancient thought and the Romans' perspective on the world around them. Book VII of The Natural History provides a detailed examination of the human animal and is crucial to understanding the work as a whole. In Pliny's

rethinking their relevance to the performance of Homeric poetry

At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary

Ο Ορέστης

Police officer Stefanos Lytras will take on the task of uncovering the murders

is plagued by dreams about the coming conflict

For this English translation it has been possible to revise the text at certain points and to update many of the references

μέχρι που η ανιψιά της Αλίκης

the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos

4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear

Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of Imperial Rome

and when' Gillian Clark presents an introduction to the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time

duty and suffering